Chalon language

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The Chalon language is an extinct Ohlone (Costanoan) Native American language once spoken in central California.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Chalon language canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Costanoan language
Native American language
Ohlone language
extinct language
indigenous language of California
associatedWith Mission Soledad
classificationStatus generally accepted as Ohlone/Costanoan
continent North America
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalContext Ohlone cultural area
documentation mission-era vocabularies
wordlists collected by missionaries
documentationStatus poorly documented
endonymStatus original self-designation uncertain
ethnicGroup Chalon people
Ohlone peoples
surface form: Ohlone people
extinction 19th century (approximate)
geographicDistribution interior Coast Ranges of central California
hasAlternativeName Esselen language
surface form: Chalone language

Soledad language
higherClassification Yok-Utian (proposed)
isoStatus no ISO 639-3 code assigned
languageBranch Utian
languageFamily Costanoan
Ohlone
Utian languages
languageOf Chalon people
surface form: Chalon tribe
languageShiftTo English
Spanish
linguisticTypology agglutinative language
suffixing morphology
partOf Ohlone languages
surface form: Ohlone linguistic continuum
region Central California
surface form: central California
relatedTo Awaswas language
Chochenyo language
Mutsun language
Rumsen language
Tamyen language
revitalizationStatus no known fluent speakers
spokenIn Monterey County NERFINISHED
Salinas Valley
San Benito County NERFINISHED
southern San Francisco Bay area
status extinct
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ohlone languages hasMember Chalon language
Ohlone languages languageFamilyOf Chalon language